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FlightAware Adds Helicopters to Global Tracking Service
New technology enables tracking of hard-to-find helicopters
FlightAware Global for Helicopters
FlightAware’s new Global for Helicopters service taps into Aireon’s space-based ADS-B data feed to enable tracking of helicopters anywhere in the world and in normally hard-to-track areas. (Photo: FlightAware)

Flight-tracking provider FlightAware has added helicopters to its global flight-tracking service. Dubbed Global for Helicopters (GFH), the new service launched on Monday at NBAA-BACE offers tracking capabilities similar to those provided by the company's FlightAware Global product for airplanes but with features targeting the unique needs of helicopter operators.

“Our mission is being the provider of the stories of flight,” said FlightAware president and general manager Matt Davis. “We want to tell the stories of flight in airspace on a global basis. We’ve been focused on fixed-wing historically…[but] helicopters are flights and we want to be telling those stories as well.”

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